Adam Groves has posted a review on the Fright Site of A FEAST OF FRIGHTS FROM THE HORROR ZINE, which features my short story, “Clawed Sod”:
A FEAST OF FRIGHTS, now available at Amazon.
A FEAST OF FRIGHTS FROM THE HORROR ZINE (The Horror Zine Books) was the fourth anthology culled from the JEANI RECTOR edited Horror Zine website. Each of these anthologies has been bigger and better than the last, which means this FEAST is the most substantial of them all (at least until the next one). As in the previous books, it’s a terrifically eclectic gathering of dark fiction that mixes big names with up-and-coming ones.
Included are reprintings of previously published tales, among them Joe R. Lansdale’s unforgettable “Incident On and Off A Mountain Road,” about a survival trained woman using her skills to take on a homicidal freak, and Jeani Rector’s own “The Golem,” which powerfully fleshes out of the legendary folk tale.
Further standouts include “Germ Warfare” by Eric J. Guignard, about an ultra-paranoid man’s desperate attempt to rid himself of toxins; “Mouthpiece” by Mike Goddard, concerning a man who develops a second mouth; and “Husks and Formless Ruins” by Tom Piccirilli, which explores lust, disillusionment and the dark extremes of religious mania.
I also appreciated the nonfiction section, which includes a piece by true crime impresario John Gilmore about his lifelong obsession with the Black Dahlia murder. We also get Joe Lansdale telling how it is he became a writer, TV legend Earl Hamner reminiscing about writing for the original TWILIGHT ZONE, and Graham Masterton’s extremely poignant remembrance of his recently deceased wife.
Click here to read the review, and click here to buy the book. If you haven’t bought (and read) it, here’s what awaits:
- “Scratchings” by Matt Leyshon
- “Ghost Pit” by Simon Clark
- “The Soldier” by Shaun Meeks
- “What the Dark Does” by Graham Masterton
- “Proper Payments” by Philip Roberts
- “Incident on and off a Mountain Road” by Joe R. Lansdale
- “Cigarettes and Cicadas” by David M. Buhajla
- “Germ Warfare” by Eric J. Guignard
- “Mouthpiece” by Mike Goddard
- “Filmland” by Stewart Horn
- “Clawed Sod” by Christian A. Larsen
- “Skelf” by John Forth
- “Homecoming” by Scott Nicholson
- “Eve of All Hallows” by Brian G. Murray
- “The Lost Sheep” by Jason Reynolds
- “Skeletons in the Closet” by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
- “Bleeder” by Paul Edwards
- “The Night Visitor” by Joe McKinney
- “Always Say Treat” by Christopher Nadeau
- “The Audit” by Susie Moloney
- “Midnight Passage” by M. C. Shelby
- “The Favorites” by Chris Castle
- “Impressive Instants” by David A. Hernandez
- “Husks and Formless Ruins” by Tom Piccirilli
- “Masks” by Taylor Grant
- “Corn” by K. A. Opperman
- “Scream Queen” by Ed Gorman
- “Reaching Out” by Christian Riley
- “Me and My Shadow” by Sandra Crook
- “Little Girl Lost” by Trevor Denyer
- “The Story of my First Kiss” by Jeff Strand
- “The Dead Wall” by Michael Wolf
- “Spicy Thai Noodle” by Alva J. Roberts
- “The Tide Clock” by James Strauss
- “The Golem” by Jeani Rector
- “A Ghost in the House” by Jeani Rector
- “The Bond” by Dean H. Wild
A FEAST OF FRIGHTS (The Horror Zine Books) is a product of THE HORROR ZINE, a monthly e-zine that publishes new issues the first of every month.
